Junior High
City of Yelm
Community Development Department
105 Yelm Avenue West
P.O. Box 479
Yelm, WA 98597
October 27, 2004
Erling Birkland, Facilities Director
Yelm Community Schools
P.O. Box 476
Yelm, WA 98597
Rocky:
The Community Development Department received from your archetects on Monday, October 25, 2004, civil engineering plans and building plans for the new Junior High School next to Mill
Pond School. As of this date, however, the City has not received an application for site plan review approval, as noted as being required during our pre-submission meeting on this project
on June 23, 2004.
As you know, the site plan review process takes approximately 16 to 18 weeks to complete for a project of this scope, and typically contains conditions of approval that must be met prior
to issuance of a building permit. These conditions could require a change to the site plan submitted as part of the land use application. Part of this process includes notice to interested
parties and the opportunity for the public and agencies with jurisdiction to review and comment on the proposal.
While the Department could begin the review process for both the civil and building plans, I am concerned that the process of land use approval will trigger changes to the site plan
that will require changes to the construction plans, increasing the cost and potentially the turn-around time on those plans. Concurrent review of civil plans and the land use application
is fairly typical, but usually the civil plans are not submitted until the land use process is nearing completion reducing the likelihood of unanticipated changes to the site plan.
If there are specific questions facing your design team during the course of construction, a full plan submission is not required, a letter and request for input is all that is required.
Please let me know how you would like to proceed with the review process related to the construction plans. If you include a schedule for submission of a site plan review application,
the Department will be able to better help you establish a schedule for the entire land use and construction plan review process.
Sincerely,
Grant Beck, Director
Department of Community Development
c. Dr. Alan Burke
Shelly Badger, City Administrator
Jerry Morrissette, Jerome W. Morrissette & Associates
David Bertus, Erickson-McGovern